Innovation spread: lessons from HIV | IJQHC
Breakthroughs in medicine and public health often require decades and significant input of resources to spread. Considerable social science literature has explored how and why innovations diffuse [1, 2], yet the spread of good ideas from bench to bedside for maximum benefit at low cost remains a central challenge. The authors propose addressing this challenge by looking outside of the traditional innovation diffusion disciplines to a biological model of successful spread: viruses.
Viruses have evolved to spread with maximum efficiency using minimal resources. All viruses are parsimonious, containing far fewer genes and proteins than the cells they target, and yet they spread efficiently.
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Viruses have evolved to spread with maximum efficiency using minimal resources. All viruses are parsimonious, containing far fewer genes and proteins than the cells they target, and yet they spread efficiently.
The authors suggest, therefore, that the mechanism of spread used by viruses may provide a model for the low-cost spread of a novel agent—in this case a health innovation—among complex systems. To explore this concept, they looked to a notorious virus example: HIV.
Innovation spread: lessons from HIV | IJQHC
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